RPG Superstar™ 2012: Mike Welham!

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

After five rounds of intensive competition, amateur game designer Mike Welham has won RPG Superstar 2012!

RPG Superstar is the largest annual tabletop roleplaying design contest. The popular vote of paizo.com's more than 200,000-strong fan community chose Mike Welham's Doom Comes to Dustpawn Pathfinder Module proposal. Welham will receive a contract to write the full adventure for Doom Comes to Dustpawn, which will be released in January, 2013.

On behalf of the judges and Paizo Publishing, as well as the many voters, congratulations again to the rest of our Top 4 contestants Steve Miller, James Olchak, and Tom Phillips.

And big props to the other top 4 as well, particularly Tom. This contest has never been this close, to my knowledge. It was CRAZY close. I think that speaks to how good all the submissions (and particularly those two) were this year.

The contest is such a long, grueling process. You all--all 4 of you--really should be very, very proud of yourselves!

I can't wait to see what you have in store for us, Mike. Congrats on the win and best of luck in your post-Superstar career. This will open doors. What you do with them is up to you.